Eminent Christian Workers of the Nineteenth Century

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ... VI. BISHOP WILBERFORCE. VI. BISHOP WILBERFORCE. IN Samuel Wilberforce the world not only lost a man of the most varied gifts and accomplishments, but a representative divine of the English Church. His great intellectual powers, his brilliant wit, his social qualities, his eloquent and persuasive ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ... VI. BISHOP WILBERFORCE. VI. BISHOP WILBERFORCE. IN Samuel Wilberforce the world not only lost a man of the most varied gifts and accomplishments, but a representative divine of the English Church. His great intellectual powers, his brilliant wit, his social qualities, his eloquent and persuasive oratory, his skill as a diocesan administrator, and his earnest religious zeal and devotion, all marked him out as one of the most original and striking characters of the time. His energy was boundless and his will indomitable, and although he found himself at various stages of his career the centre of a violent opposition, he overcame his opponents, and was at length frankly acknowledged, even by those who most widely differed from him, to be one of the greatest of modern bishops. Born at Clapham Common, near London, on the 7th of September, 1805, he was the third son of the eminent philanthropist, William Wilberforce, and his wife Barbara Ann, daughter of Mr. Isaac Spooner, of Elmdon Hall, Warwickshire. The Wilberforce lineage was an ancient one, being traced back to the days of Henry IL, but it is curious that no member of it entered Holy Orders until the time of Samuel Wilberforce and his two brothers Robert and Henry. These two brothers ultimately entered the Roman Catholic Church, as likewise did a third brother, William, who was trained for the bar. Samuel Wilberforce's early education was conducted by private tutors, but while they imparted knowledge, his mind and heart were chiefly affected, and his character moulded, by his father, who seems from the first to have had a powerful influence upon his son. He wrote to him constantly, his letters being full of solicitude that his boy should grow up noble, upright, and devout. One of the...
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